Game device.



H. VOGELSANG.

GAME DEVICE. APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 12, 1911*.y

1,010,540. j rammed Dc.5,1911.

HENRY V'OGrELSANG,` OF BROOKLYN, NEW YOBiK.

GAME DEVICE.

i Specification of Letters Patent.

Applicatonled .Tune 12, 1911.

Patented Dec. 5, 1911.

Serial No. 632,552.

To all whom t may concern: f

Be it known that I, I-IENRY VoGELsANG, a subject of the Emperor of4 Germany, and residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have 'invented cer-- tain new and useful Improvements in Game Devices, of which the following is a specific-ation, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to' game'devices and the object thereof is to provide an improved device of this class which is designed to amuse both old and young and which resembles to an extent the game of checkers, and which comprises a board having a diagram formed by transverse parallelv linesand parallel diagonal lineswhich cross each other at right angles, said diagonal lines dividing the diagram into rectangular portions which are subdivided by the parallel transverse lines into triangular'portions together with other features as hereinafter described, and two setsof men or blocks by means of which the game is played.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following` specification of which the accompanying drawing forms aA part, in which the separate parts of my improvement aredesig.- nated by suitable reference characters, said drawing being a diagrammatic view of my improved device.

In the practice of my invention I provide a board a which is preferably rectangular in form and the field of which contains a rectangular diagram b, b2, b3, and b4, said diagram being formed by parallel transverse lines c and parallel diagonal lines Z which cross each other at right angles and which divide the diagram into separate rectangular blocks which are sub-divided by the parallel transverse lines into triangular blocks. The fourth transverse line, counting from each end portion of the diagram and represented, in the form of construction shown by the reference character c2, is distinguished from the other transverse lines either in size and dimensions or by coloring or in any other way, and these transverse lines c2 divide the diagram into a central field e, e2, e3, e* and two end fields or portions b, b2, e, e2, and e3, e, b3, b4, and the end fields or portions are called forts and are designated as a whole by the reference characters f and f2. The diagonal lines Z which cross each other at right angles are also distinguished from the transverse lines c, and this may be done by means of different colors, or as shown 1n the diagonal lines cross are formed stations g jwhlch consistin the construction shown, of -circular black spots, but may be of other ,form andcolor.

The game is played by means of two sets ofmen or blocks h and-z' each of which comprises a general h2, 22 two sub-officers h3, z3 and ive privates it, 4, and at the beginning of the game the men or blocks l1. are placed on the end stations g2, g3, g4, g5, gs, gl, gs and gf in the fort f, and the men `or blocks z' on the corresponding end stat-ions g2, g3, g4, etc., in the fort f2, in any desired order. Each fort contains a vacant space f3 and the meny by means of which the game is played can only enter the center field at or between the point-s f* and f5,f6 and f7.

In the playing of the game the generals 7b2, 2 may be moved in any direction along any ofthe diagonal lines or transverse paral-k -lel' lines and may jump or take any other` men, suboflicers or privates, found on any =ofsuch lines, but cannot jump or take more Vthan oneman at single movement unless a number of said men are found on said? line or lines separated by alternate stations `g, in which event a general may take all of the men so found. The sub-oicers ha, 3 may move or be moved forward or backward on the diagonal lines and also laterally on the horizontal lines and may jump or take one or more men `in so doing; and the privates may move or be moved forwardly and laterally on the diagonal and transverse parallel lines, but cannot move or be moved backwardly, and in making such movements they may jump or take any man found on said lines and in proper position, and if a plurality of men are found on said lines separated by a station, a numberof said men may be jumped or taken. The object of each player is to get a man into the other or opposite players fort and when this is accomplished he takes all the men found in the fort, but the said opposite player may still continue the game by means of other men which he may have in the center field and the player who gets the greatest number of men into his opponents fort wins the game.

In the construction shown the center field contains a number of hazards which are not crossed by either the-'horizontal parallel or the diagonal parallel line and these hazards are three in number and consist of a central S-shaped hazard j and tWo diagonally opposite triangular hazards y'2 distinguished from the rest of the diagram by coloring or otherwise, and the center S-shaped hazard y' consists of three separate parts separated byV stations g1@ at which points said hazards may be crossed. In the playing of the game the men cannot be moved across the hazards j and jg except across the hazard at g1, and the use of these hazards complicates the playing of the game and renders the same more diiiicult.

i My invention is not limited to the exact construction and arrangement herein shown and described, nor to the exact method of playing the game herein set out and various changes therein and modications thereof may be made, Within `the scope of the appended claims, Without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A game device of the class described, comprising a board and a plurality of sets of blocks representing men of dii'erent grades, said board being provided With a rectangular diagram Jormed by parallel transverse lines and diagonally arranged lines which cross each other in opposite directions, the transverse and diagonal line.c forming, Where they cross, stations, and the comprising a board and a plurality of sets of blocks representing men of diierent grades, said board being provided with a rectangular diagram formed by parallel transverse lines and diagonally arranged lines which cross each other in opposite directions, the transverse and diagonal lines, Where they cross, forming stations, and the transverse lines at a predetermined distance from each end of the diagram being distinguished from the other transverse lines and forming division lines Which divide the diagram into a central field and into two end forts, and said end forts containing transverse vacantspaces at both ends of which the diagonal lines are continuous, and the center iield of the diagram being also provided with hazards which are not crossed by the transverse and diagonal lines.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of the subscribing Witnesses this 9th day of June 1911.

HENRY VOGELSANG.

Witnesses:

C. E. MULREANY, F. Gr. AT LEE.

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